Stable Peace

by Kenneth E. Boulding

Book Overview

The human race has often put a high value on struggle, strife, turmoil, and excitement. Peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps dull ideal or as some random element over which we have no control. However, the desperate necessities of the nuclear age have forced us to take peace seriously as an object of both personal and national policy. Stable Peace attempts to answer the question, If we had a policy for peace, what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292764480
• ISBN13: 9780292764484
• Release Date: May 1978
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Still the best book on the subject

Deceptively short and fun to read, this is one of the most insightful and conceptually sophisticated books ever written about the conditions for creating international peace.